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QBASIC was lot further down the line as I understand it. Eric is talking about the first basic for the 8-bit Altair(I believe that was the machine name). Product was actually built on a emulator running on a DEC PDP machine. When no one else had anything (No machine to write on), Gates was ready with a product when the product shipped. -----Original Message----- From: email@james-w-kilgore.com [mailto:email@james-w-kilgore.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 11:29 AM To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com Subject: Re: Bill Gate$. Eric, Up here, in the Northwest, the story is that Bill and Co. bought QBasic. eric.delong@pmsi-services.com wrote: > > Well, strictly speaking, Bill and Co. did in fact write their first > product. Microsoft Basic for all of the homebrew PCs back in the dark > ages. While it was not really a "new" product in terms of function, > they did make it to support a market that had nothing else to work > with (sounds familiar, huh? <g>) > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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